3dsMax Viewport Shader

[doylle]

Xoliul is taking over the thread

Just for the record, If anybody feels like making changes to the original version, or an updated version, don't hesitate to post it here. If the changes are big enough i'll add them to the list. Could be cool to make this some sort of community project...

[michi:be]

Is there a way to use multi/sub materials? I'm working a lot with this setup for my models.

I can only use th doylle version because of my max version.

[[hP]]

Sounds good doylle.

btw, I have a question. I've been working with vegetation a lot, and obviously I've been using your shader.
But, it doesn't render the backface of the polys! Is there a way to turn on "2-sided" parameter for a material? So I could see the texture on both side of the geometry. I didn't find it on the shader parameters, so I guess I could call this post a "request"?

[Pankake]

Copy>paste>flip? .

[doylle]

@ Michi:be: You can use Multisub object materials. Only thing you have keep in mind is that you can't mix standard max materials and DXShaders in 1 MS object material. They all have to be one of the two, or max will not draw the standard materials that are in the ms object material.

@ HP: There might be a way around this, but i'd have to look into it. Disabling backface culling and flipping the normals in the shader might do the trick.

I'm currently working on a whole new version. Figured out how to make render targets work in max, so i can now finaly do post processing in max' viewport (like real glow, bloom, etc). Don't expect this anytime soon, but i'll try to add 2 sided materials as well.

For now, i think pankake's solution would be best

[Stefan_Morrell]

I'd love to see an option to have a height map for parallax,maybe in the alpha of the normal map.

[michi:be]

I played around with the "augusturinn" shader and realtime viewport shader. It features a lot of stuff too like glow and such.

Have to test it some more but also very promising. It has a nice skybox shader as well.

[doylle]

Update time...

Added cubemaps(with mask), real Glow, and materials are now 2 sided. I still need to find a way to toggle 2 sided materials, but they work. Still got a coupble bugs to fix, but after that i'd like to look into parallax mapping...



I'll add it to the list when it's all tuned and optimized...

[nfollmer]

Originally Posted by doylle

Update time...

Added cubemaps(with mask), real Glow, and materials are now 2 sided. I still need to find a way to toggle 2 sided materials, but they work. Still got a coupble bugs to fix, but after that i'd like to look into parallax mapping...



I'll add it to the list when it's all tuned and optimized...

LOL dude, I was just trying to add glow to this thing, now I don't have too hehe. I'll mess around with adding something else Maybe parallax bump.....

EDIT: Do you need me to edit any of these new shaders to work with MAX 2009?

[Craig Lewis]

Originally Posted by doylle

Update time...

Added cubemaps(with mask), real Glow, and materials are now 2 sided. I still need to find a way to toggle 2 sided materials, but they work. Still got a coupble bugs to fix, but after that i'd like to look into parallax mapping...



I'll add it to the list when it's all tuned and optimized...

Your spoiling us